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July 21 2005, 1:00am, The Times

Armstrong helps out team-mate

Cycling: Roles were reversed in the Tour de France yesterday as Lance Armstrong played the perfect team-mate to Paolo Savoldelli, of Italy, who took an impressive first stage win in Revel. Savoldelli, the Giro d’Italia champion, is riding for Armstrong’s Discovery Channel team as climbing lieutenant to the American during the mountain stages. Yesterday, however, with the Pyrenees receding into the heat haze, he was given his chance and took it.

Olympic mission

Equestrianism: Great Britain, still scarred by their failure to qualify for the Athens Olympic Games show jumping, are optimistic of reclaiming their place at the forefront of the sport when they compete in the European Championships that begin in San Patrignano, Italy, today.